The Lenient Beast
""The Mark of the Beast is upon me, and the Beast is Mercy. Until the Mark is taken away, I must perform my function as the giver of God's greatest gift of Mercy -- death and surcease to those for whom life seems to be agony." Six people already had been relieved of the burden of life; six times John Medley had felt peace. On the police blotter six brutal murders were stamped unsolved"-- http://www.centipedepress.com/crime/lenientbeast.html (as viewed on February 16, 2017).